Deputy President of Kenya Kithure Kindiki has left Kenya to Botswana.
The deputy president swearing inaugurations ceremony took place on 1st November 2024 after the court had passed his swearing as legal.
Kithure Kindiki had replaced Rigathi Gachagua who was impeached by parliament and later on sacked by the senate after they found him guilty of 5 out of 11 grounds that had been tabled by the sente.
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On Wednesday, 7th November, the Deputy President handed over his past responsibility as the Cabinet secretary of interior to the new cabinet secretary of interior, Musalia Mudavadi.
He therefore began work immediately as the Deputy President and has begun his first assignment as the Deputy President of Kenya today, 8th November.
Kithure left the country this morning for Gaborone, Botswana to represent President William Ruto at the swearing in Inauguration ceremony of His Excellency Duma Boko as the 6th President of the Republic of Botswana.
He left the country moments after he took on his new office at Harambee House, Nairobi.
While taking over the office, the Deputy President made a powerful speech.
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He said that as he assumed the functions of the Deputy President of Kenya, he pledged to support and assist president Ruto to canvass, defend and accelerate the implementation of the Bottom-Up-Economic Agenda (BETA) on which his administration was elected two years ago.
The Deputy President was accompanied by; Senators who included Fatuma Dullo (Isiolo) and Eddy Oketch (Migori), Assembly members who included Owen Baya (Kilifi North), Vincent Musyoka (Mwala), John Njuguna Kwanjiku (Kiambaa), Victor Koech (Chepalungu and Elisha Odhiambo (Gem).
